From: george knysh
Message: 62529
Date: 2009-01-20
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
Germanic (and Hungarian) are fairly exceptional,
They are the only clear cases of Western Siberian people succeeding in
establishing in Europe.
****GK: The Magyar trek is historically well documented. We have nothing comparable for the absurd "theory" of Germanic (and only Germanic) moving from West Siberia to Europe. If the notion that Siberian peoples contributed words to the Germanic lexicon is not a figment of Fournet's uncontrollable imagination, it would further need to be convincingly shown that these words did not originate from a substrate population which moved in from the east before the IE arrived to absorb it.I shan't be holding my breath onthat one (:=)))****